Get Your Sparks while they last

The FDA is weighing a decision to ban caffeinated alcoholic beverages. Which is garbage. They're viewing this as a ban on Sparks or similar products. But it reasonably would prohibit bar staples, such as red bull and vodka* or rum-and-cokes. More pointedly, it would prohibit irish coffees, which I can imagine that more than a few congressmen have quaffed on occasion. However, if the type of nanny state government that Bloomberg has imposed on New York become instituted nation wide (no trans fat! no smoking in bars!), this will be on the list.

*True story--I met a girl who ordered a red bull/vodka once at a bar. I told her that I'd never heard of a "Red Bull" and wanted to know what it was. She proceeded to extol the virtues of the drink, and buy another 3 or 4 for us in quick succession. This incident occurred in late 2006. The lesson learned: it can be fun to tell people that you've never heard of a common, well-known product and watch as they overreact.
Hattip-Sports Guy

Word of the Day: Sedition

Let me begin by noting that this person worked as an official in both the Carter and Regan Administrations and is a Pulitzer Prize recipient.

"There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.

[...]

Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making."

It makes me yearn for the days when people got arrested just for showing up at townhalls in mean t-shirts. I'll leave readers to draw their own conclusions as to where this sort of thing leads. For my part, things are really seeming to take on a April 19, 1995 flavor to me. Link below, if you can bear it.

Remarkable

Friday Night Lights Ep 304

I just finished watching the latest FNL episode and I can't tell if I need a cigarette or for someone to just hold me.

Top 5 Vignettes As It Stands Now (no spoilers, I promise):
5. Smash and fam
4. JD McCoy and fam
3. Ongoing Tami/Coach love affair (It makes me feel warm inside)
2. Tyra / Lance Landry
1. All things Saracen (Julie < Grandma < Mom < QB1)

5 Vignettes I couldn't care less about:
5. Lyla / Tim (I liked God-boy)
4. Julie and her parents (she's the Lisa Simpson of the show)
3. If I hear one more thing about the Jumbo Tron...
2. Jason Street (Is that prejudice?)
1. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Riggins